On 5/6/16 11:32 AM, Robert burner Schadek wrote:
As discussed yesterday at DConf, curl in phobos must go.
The plan is as follows.
1. undocument everything curl related in may 2016
2. deprecate everything curl related in may 2017
3. delete everything curl related in may 2018
3.1 move curl stuff to undead
PR: https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/4283
Another library discussed as even more ripe for replacement is zlib:
* We compile the C source code, which is extra aggravation to the build
scripts
* The D wrappers are ancient and clunky - we should have beautiful,
efficient range streaming
* I think the license allows us to translate the source code to D, so we
have a viable path of replacement
* Just got word (thx Rikki) the D wrappers use GC in a laissez-faire
manner, so no way to use the library tightly
So if anyone wants to look into this, it would be a good project.
Andrei
